If you want to be involved in this year’s ACAL conference, the call is now out for presentations. These can be provided in various session modes and include: Practical workshops Panels Practice Tasters Individual Papers Posters (New). For more information on how to submit for a presentation...
You can still enrol in a university teaching qualification for adult literacy and numeracy for first semester 2025 but you need to apply soon. Charles Sturt University Charles Sturt University offers a range of specialist online language, literacy and numeracy teaching courses. These are taught by...
As many of us know, there is a critical shortage of adult literacy and numeracy teachers throughout Australia. Last year the Hotline was delighted to learn that TAFE NSW successfully trialled a literacy and numeracy professional development program called Adult Literacy and Numeracy Teaching (ALaNT). We thought...
In December last year, DEWR released the new National Foundation Skills Strategy which sets a shared direction around literacy and numeracy for the next decade. As part of the National Skills Agreement all governments agreed to work together to develop a National Foundation Skills Strategy 2025-2035. The...
Huge congratulations to Gemma Beall, winner of the 2024 Australian Training Awards Excellence in Language, Literacy and Numeracy Practice. Gemma is a key member of our National Steering Committee and is a TAFE NSW Literacy Team Leader. With more than 16 years experience in adult literacy...
Elise rang the Hotline on behalf of her sister, Holly, who struggled with reading and writing and wanted to find a job. The Hotline saw there was a tutoring program at the local library, but it turned out that the program was no longer being offered....
2024 was another huge year for the Hotline. The special moments for us in 2024 were about meeting so many wonderful literacy and numeracy teachers, providers, library staff, partners and stakeholders at meetings, workshops, events and conferences. Hearing about the work you are doing in adult...
Feature interview In our last Literacy Links we highlighted the ACAL webinar on literacy mediation with Dr Sally Thompson. In the interview below Sally explores these issues further and beautifully articulates a definition of literacy mediation, who does it, where and the complexities around it. Can...
(Thanks to the TAFE Queensland English Language and Literacy Services and the Commonwealth Government's SEE team for this story) Twelve students from the First Nations Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) program at TAFE Queensland have secured employment with Telstra as part of an innovative program...
“Failing” a literacy/numeracy pre-assessment We regularly hear from callers who say they have ‘failed’ a literacy/numeracy pre-assessment for courses such as nursing, and want to know what to do. Some say that they were going to give up. The Hotline helps callers to check both what they...